Sweater or like garment.



B. I. CAMPB.

SWEATER 0R LIKE GARMENT.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 5. 1912.

Patented Feb. 4, 1913.

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BERNARD I. CAMPE, 0F YONKEBS, NEW YORK.

R LIKE GARMENT.

Speccation of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. Lt, i913.

Application led .Tune 5, 1912. Serial No. 701,772.

To all 'whom t ma concern:

Be it known that I, BERNARD I. CAMrr., a citizen of the United States, and ah resident of Yonkers, in the county of lestchester Sil) and State of New York, have invented a .new and improved Sweater or Like Garment, of which the following is a'full, clear, and exact description.

The invention relates more particularly to knit sweaters having turned down collars open at the front, and provided with buttonholes for receiving the buttons or ends of links.

.'With sweaters and other garments having soft collars, as specified for the wearing of'links engaging the adjacent flaps of the collar, the links are liable to become accidentali. disconnected from one or both of the collar flaps, and the collar has a tendency to curl or creep upward, and moreover, when ties are worn with the garment, they are usually four-in-ha'nds, or ties with knots similar to four-in-hands, and the knot of the tie frequently sags, putting a strain on the link tending to pull the buttons of the links through the buttonholes.

The object of my invention is to provide' e loop so located and of such a character as to permit the link to extend beneath the loop, the loop being located at the central line, or exact front of the neck of the garinent, and equi-distant from the collar flaps. With the link engaging the loop ot' my iinproved garment, the collar is held in proper l position and prevented from curling or creeping upward, and any strains.l on the collar ends at the buttons ot the link will be the loop. Moreover, the tie will he sustained in position without being drawn so tightly against the neck of the sweater to cause 'the neck and collar to gather or wrinkle, liecause the loop holds the link and the collar ends close to the neck or neclehand ot' the garment, resulting in the collar tlaps having better holding engagement on the tie adjacent to vthe knot; furthermore, the eoaction of the link and loop serves to arrest the sagging of the tie and sustains the. same.

'The invention will be more particularly described in the specitic description hereinafter to be given.

Reference is to he had to the accompanying drawings forming a part ot this specilication, `in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both WSWS.,

Figure l is a perspective view of the upper portion of a knitted sweater and its collar provided with my improved loop, showing the link in position; and Fig. 2 is a vertical section on an enlarged scale, the section being taken on about the line #2 of Fig. l

The knitted sweater l() as illustrated is -in the main of known formation, having au is made up ot several strands to `ive strength. The loop is located at the vcrtical center ot the garment, equialistaut from the front' edges l5 oi: the collar, and desiraliiy the location ot the loop is adjacent to the meetingr line lt' of the hody ol the sweater aud the nceloliaud ll. Only sufficient fullness is allowed iu the loop to permit of the entrance therelwueath ol au end or button 17 of the liuk i8. The loop so locates it relatively lo the ludtouholesl lil that when the link is engaged with the loop and the button ends l? engaged iu the hutionholes of the collar. llic collar will lie maintained in proper position, aud the strains ou the link buttons will he. trausferred to thc loop. lhe collar will thus he prevented from rising or curling upward. hloreover, the eollar ends are maintained iu such .relation to the neck 1l as to exert an increased holding action ou the tic and lessen its tendency to sag without the neck portion of the tic being drawn abnormally tight.

l-liaving thus described .my invention, l claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

The herein described so't't or kuit `narn'ient. having au integral, turn down collar open at. the front, a neckhaud on the garnient between the body and the collar,'the neckband being' of approxiiuately equal height with the collar and extending continuously and in unbroken 'torni across the opening' ot the collar, and a link-receiving loop of textile material, located on the garment in permanently tixed position adjacent te juncture of he lower end of the neckrband mici the body of the garment, midway between 'the coiiai' ends, the collar of the. garment having holes near the loweil free corners thereof to receive the heads of e link, and the said loop serving 'to receive the body the link, and of a-size "io permit the entrance and femova of he heads of the iini at eithei side of the loop, and the transfiedian iine of die loop being about en a line with the buttonholes oi the collar, to hold the iink and the collar ends from rism0'.

n testimony whereof, have signed my name tcthis specification in the presence of `15 two Subscribing witnesses.

v BERNARD CAMPE., itnesses z LEONARD LEYKAMP, JOHN P. DAVIS. 

